[Russell Brand]
Well, I’ve not invented it yet, Jeremy! Here’s the thing it shouldn’t do: It shouldn’t destroy the planet, shouldn’t create massive economic disparity, shouldn’t ignore the needs of the People. The burden of proof is on the people with the power.

[Jeremy Paxman]
I’m saying that if you can’t be asked to vote, why should we be asked to listen to your political point of view?

[Russell Brand]
You don’t have to listen to my political point of view. But it’s not that I’m not voting out of apathy; I’m not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery, deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations now, and has now reached fever pitch where we have a disenfranchised, disillusioned, despondent underclass that are not being represented by that political system. So voting for it is tacit complicity with that system, and that’s not something I’m offering up.

[Russell Brand]
Well, I was busy being a drug addict at that point because I’m come from the kind of social conditions that are exacerbated by an indifferent system that really just administrates for large corporations and ignores the population it was voted in to serve.

[Jeremy Paxman]
You’re blaming the political class for the fact you had a drug problem?

[Jeremy Paxman]
You don’t believe in democracy; you want a revolution, don’t you?

[Russell Brand]
The planet is being destroyed, we are creating an underclass, we’re exploiting poor people all over the world, and there are genuine, legitimate problems of the people not being addressed by our political class.

I think a socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution wealth, heavy taxation of corporations and massive responsibility for energy companies and any companies exploiting the environment. I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced. David Cameron says, ‘profit isn’t a dirty word,’ I say, ‘profit is a filthy word,’ because wherever there is profit there is also deficit and this system currently doesn’t address these ideas.

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